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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students research the history of baseball focusing on Negro League Baseball. They use organizers to compile information, write reports on their research and design baseball cards for players from the Negro League. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, and read and analyze the poem, "Casey at the Bat." They read and discuss handouts, conduct Internet research, and write poetry about baseball and the Negro Baseball Leagues. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students read articles about the Negro Baseball League and list facts they discover. They rewrite these facts into complete sentences and conduct Internet research to add facts to their graphic organizers. They rewrite all the collected information following the pattern of Margaret Wise Brown's book, The Important Book. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss the history of segregation in major league baseball and create a KWL chart. Working in pairs, they compare and contrast the Negro and white baseball teams and players. Using graphic organizers, they create simile and metaphor charts based on what they have learned. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students figure out the average salary of a Major League Baseball player, then identify MLB revenue sources in addition to ticket sales. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine historical law and its impact on Negro Leagues Baseball and Black Americans. Students identify and research laws contributing to segregation or integration, and choose one law to reenact in a historically accurate manner. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore integration of Major League Baseball, identify important individual baseball players who played key roles in integration, and analyze historical information through charts, graphs, and statistics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students think critically and creatively while researching Negro Leagues baseball vocabulary terms and producing a political cartoon defining those terms. The research for this lesson is done on the internet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students identify the various Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 researching the Negro Leagues through the Internet, textbooks, novels, and historical documents. They then identify inception dates, elements contributing to failure, and the date the league ceased to exist. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students create ways to compare and contrast major league and minor league baseball players using statistical tables. Video segments spur a discussion on the differences between a major league player and a minor league player. Students then choose a major and a minor league player and set up their own table to compare data for the two players. Full Review »
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